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Hannelore's OCD
alexsc12:
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--- Quote ---One example is Questionable Content (http://www.questionablecontent.net/) which has a character with severe OCD which never shows it as serious, but instead as cute, endearing and almost fun.
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Do you know, he has a point.
MissLiza:
Hmm, not really.
As a psych student, something I love about QC is that the depiction of Hanners' OCD is better than a lot of other attempts. Most attempts to create an OCD character focus only on the cleaning obsessiong. Well, no, that's not what OCD is all about. While there are elements of OCD which aren't obvious in Hanners' behaviour, the random compulsions sufferers experience (such as the strange compulsion to stab someone, kill all their friends and family) have been mentioned, and I give Jeph kudos for this.
No one is an expert on everything, and personality disorders and abnormal psychology are just an area where a lot of people tend to think they know more than they do. In every subject area there will be elitists triyng to prove that they know more about a topic than anyone else by telling someone else they're 'doing it wrong' and proceed to point out why.
In the same way, people think people with diabetes just can't eat sugar, kidney failure means you can't drink alcohol and depression makes you feel a little bit sad sometimes.
At the end of the day, Hanners is just a cute character - not an education on psychological disorders. And anyone who takes her as such should probably not be much of a concern to anyone.
jtheory:
Hanners' OCD interferes with her life and causes her significant distress, all the time.
The other characters in the comic react sometimes with concern, sometimes with humor; it depends on the situation.
In this strip, Marten is sitting outside the bathroom door because he dragged himself over there to try to reassure her (in spite of having been smacked in the face...). It just so happens that sitting outside a bathroom door when someone hugely self-conscious is inside carries its own dangers (and the main joke in the strip comes from that).
I should admit it's been a while since I studied psych... but I'm sure there are situations that arise with real-life OCD sufferers that can be humorous (and which they themselves may find humorous, though possibly only in retrospect...) and hey, it's like a lot of things in life that can be sometimes pretty shitty but sometimes pretty funny.
Is it cold in here?:
Older related thread including perspectives from OCD sufferers
psion:
--- Quote from: jtheory on 24 Dec 2008, 17:28 ---Hanners' OCD interferes with her life and causes her significant distress, all the time.
The other characters in the comic react sometimes with concern, sometimes with humor; it depends on the situation.
In this strip, Marten is sitting outside the bathroom door because he dragged himself over there to try to reassure her (in spite of having been smacked in the face...). It just so happens that sitting outside a bathroom door when someone hugely self-conscious is inside carries its own dangers (and the main joke in the strip comes from that).
I should admit it's been a while since I studied psych... but I'm sure there are situations that arise with real-life OCD sufferers that can be humorous (and which they themselves may find humorous, though possibly only in retrospect...) and hey, it's like a lot of things in life that can be sometimes pretty shitty but sometimes pretty funny.
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I can't exactly say for OCD, but I can say for ADD and ADHD. There are times that it is completly hilarious. I was talking with a friend about some chick I liked, and I stopped in mid-sentence to think about something completly different. I think it was laundry. Either way, once my buddy got me back on track, we both laughed for quite some time over this.
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